Nostalgia

I was recently listening to a chain of music videos on YT, and one thing led to another (as it does), until I came to an album by the Canadian band Crash Test Dummies. I listened to the album again for the first time in decades, and suffered waves of nostalgia! This track in particular, In the Days of the Caveman, took me right back to the time when I was working at Wits Uni in Johannesburg, doing my M.Sc. in Palaeoclimatology, when the song seemed oddly appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGtdE0bBE9c

At the time, I was surrounded by family and old friends, all of them too far away to see regularly anymore...

Which led me to this:

Let us sit and remember things past
Those which could never last –
The songs, the folks, the ways
Colouring our younger days.
 
But, could we speak to those
Younger selves, I suppose
They would tell of woes lost
To mem’ry, unmourned, that cost
 
Us dearly at the time,
Now lost to the tide of time
Which washes all away,
Healing in its forgetful way.
 
Though we see years passed
With rosy tint, ‘tis not the last
Of merriment, joy or peace
Let us give thanks for the present, at least,
 
When things are not so bad,
And good days still are had – 
Which in time’s short-term lease
On our memories, lays leaves of peace.